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From: karl AT aspodata DOT se
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Subject: [geda-user] why pinnumber in sym pins?
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Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 13:20:09 +0100 (CET)
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 Why must one have a pinnumber attribute for each pin i a sym file:
http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:master_attributes_list#pinnumber

Wouldn't it suffice to have pinseq and pinlabel ?
Wouldn't it be useful to allow  to have just a function (pinlabel)
attached to the pin without knowing which pinnumber it will end up on ?

 E.g. dc/dc converters with single output usually have four pins
+/-Vin and +/-Vout in all sorts of packages where the pinnumber (from
the datasheet) can be anything but 1,2,3,4, but their pin names are
+/-Vin/Vout. So, it would be nice if one could map sym -> fp with
just the "pinlabel" (gschem) -> pin "Name" (pcb). But pcb doesn't seem
to support that idea.

Any suggestions or pointers ?

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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